... a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize Award, the Alabama Library Association Book Award, and the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the novel still receives shouts of criticism because of its "immorality" and "racist attributes" (Karolides et al.). Banning To Kill a Mockingbird gave southerners the excuse to avoid hearing a part of American society they ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... push away the questions and comments that were spoken about with Clarisse, but he can not stop thinking of her. The rising action begins after reaching his house where Montag finds his wife, Mildred,(or Millie for short) lying next to a bottle of empty sleeping pills, weather they were accidentally or purposely consumed ... her home. The fighters race to her home and begin to destroy the books by spraying kerosine on them. Montag urges the book owner to leave because the house is going to be set afire. She refuses and recites something she read from a book " 'Play the man, Master Ridley; ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... , except for the TV Parlor. The TV Parlor was a room with huge TV screens instead of walls, and you can interact with them. Montag's house is not a place that seems very comfortable. His room is always described as dark and cold. Its not a happy place, and he seems to be ... very depressed and sad when at his house. The firehouse is described as having a brass pole, and the list of forbidden books posted on the wall. The firehouse was kind of a scary place ... an, according to society, odd girl named Clarisse McClellan. 2. Montag and the other firefighters burn a house with books, the o...

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• Grade Level: High School

... that Mildred attempts suicide by taking a bottle of sleeping pills at night. He calls the emergency hospital, with a terrible whisper, and saves her life. Bradbury presents Mildred is not a general house wife in modern world, because she does not care about her husband, and rarely talks to him, and wastes time in front of T.V. Of course, Guy is disappointed about the ... I feel that way. However, when Guy saw an old woman burn herself with all her books, he finds out something really special about this woman. When they go into the house which hides a bunch of books, they see an old woma...

• Word Count: 1254
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... lanes across, and firemen are called to begin fires not to put an end to them. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, all of these are a reality in everyday life. Each house in the novel is fireproof, bringing about drastic changes in the roles of firefighters. Firefighters now begin fires, rather than extinguish them as they do today. On a number of occasions ... tanks strapped to their shoulders, they coated each book, they pumped rooms full of it." (38). After responding to an alarm, the men are drenching the house of an old woman with kerosene because the house held books inside it. The ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... job as a fireman. He finds a man that also likes books and has been planning to destroy what the fireman do. Then, Guy Montage is reported to have books in his house. While on the job the fireman receive a call to go and burn some books. Guy is startled when they pull up in front of his ... house. The head fireman gives a blowtorch to Guy and has him do it himself. Guy burns his entire house down, but by now he has almost gone insane. He ends up killing the head fireman and running. The authorities chase ... ...

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... not happy. After this meeting, Montag begins to question his life as a fireman. On his next call, he steals a book from an old woman who refuses to leave her burning house. The next day, Montag misses work, and he receives a visit from Captain Beatty. He delivers a lengthy monologue to Montag in which he speaks very knowledgeably about books, but is ironic ... communicate with him in the future. On his next day at work, Montag gives Beatty the book and leaves on a call with his fellow firemen. They arrive at Montag's own house; Mildred had made the call and flees in a taxi when the fire...

• Word Count: 1705
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... rest. When Guy goes to work one night, a call comes in. They take off for the job and soon Guy realizes they are at his own house. After he is forced to burn down his house, he is put under arrest. Without realizing it, he turns the flamethrower on Beatty and burns him to ashes. He escapes and suddenly it seems as ... ...

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... , they often say that they censor books because the books themselves, or the ideas they contain, are harmful and will make the people unhappy. "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon" (Bradbury 58). This statement is made in Farenheit 451, by Beatty, the chief fireman. The reader learns that Beatty himself ... woman die and, like a soldier at the foot of the cross, has an epiphany. "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a women stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." (...

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... imagination could elicit. And, as Mr. Stendahl told Mr. Garret, "Ignorance is fatal." (180). Mr. Stendahl tried to show society the value of the fantastic by building a replica of the house of Usher. Inside it, he recreated all of the flights of fancy that had been destroyed in the Great Burning. He then invited the greatest advocates against fantasy to his ... house for a dinner party and introduced them to all the fantastic horrors that had been burned. The guests even enjoyed themselves, until they had started to be killed off in the ... ...

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... the person who is following him, he is able to pursue this person by trailing their body warmth. Later in on the novel when Beatty makes Montag burn his own house down, Montag's last words to Beatty are, "We did not burn right"" (119). This suggests that Montag is finally standing up for what he believes society should do with fire ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School